The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-02-13

lieve 1t to be a private mandatory Of
burglars implements
The following Is amusing, as taken
from the Testimony given last Monday be-
fore the Elections Committee. by James
Reasoner, in the Jones' Waiter case:
O. Where did you live Immediately be-
fore that?
a. Where did i've BIO that9
A. Same street
@. Where did you live before that?
A. Where did live BIO thatl
Q, Yes.
A. Right back at the same place again.
~. DO You live in what is called tho
SwaAp?
A. Yes; the Swamp us'Ily ,uus right
frou de street.
Last Monday afternoon, Ely called
attention in The Newark News" to the
number Of supernumenes employed in the
Assembly. He says he counted 80 pages.
when 10 had heretofore been the full
compliment, and eight door keepers to
open half as many doors. Altogether he
declares the page and door keeper service
this year will cost the State sci 900 where
in times past it has cost only $4,000.
The House Monday evening demanded
reduction in the force, and s rgeant- at
Arms Terry was compelled to bounce ten
or twelve OF his kids The luckless little
chaps could get neither money out of the
State nor passes out of the railroad Com
panies; aud it is reported that many of
them had to walk home.
The Republican leaders have found
it impossible to induce the Democratic
members of the legislature to support
Republican candidates for Senator, or to
bolt their Party caucus And now they
are trying 10 induce disaffec-ed Demo
Gratis to stay out of Joint Meeting. This
would be no smaller an act of party
treachery than an out and out bolt of the
caucus. 1t would give the Republicans a
majority of a quorum and enable them to
elect United States Senator. The Dem
ocrats who may thus aid the defeat eff
Democratic candidate for Senator will be
covered with the same infamy that awaits
them if attending the Joint Meeting, they
refuse 10 vote for the regular candidate of
the party.
1t isn't everybody who knows that we
have in this State Surveyor G. eneral of
West Jersey" The Mt. Holley mirror"
says that the present Surveyor General,
Franklin Woolman, has been the custodian
of the musty old documents and parch-
meats at BurliBoton for forty-fve years.
His father, Burr Wooiman, held the office
before him for thirty-fve years. The
Proprietors of West Jersey hold meetings
regularly in his musty little Office and lay
claim, as their name Indicates. 10 proprie-
tary rights that aute-date the Federal gov
eminent, in all the INDICATED lands in
West Jersey.
The Newark s'News" has special
from Washington which says that on
Thursday night Senator Sewells private
I. L.
Hon. william Walter Phelps first, then
MIR. Phelps sent several hurried dispatches
to New Jersey. Later on Phelps ande
Sewell held long caucus, the result of
which is now being energetically discussed
One rumor has it that Sewell is going to
withdraw in favor of the Bergen statesman,
while another gives it as the gospel truth
that Phelps has determined to step aside
and give Sewell the right Of way. To all
inquiries, however. these two statesmen
we're dumb. Sewell and Phelps started
together for Trenton on the II O'clock
train last night.
Last year Hudspeth and Baird were
firm friends, called each other ssBob" and
"Dec," and had a good time generally.
After Baird stole the Speakership this
year, however. each religiously avoided
the other. But one night recently they
Baird. seeing there was no help for it,
remarked in a nonchalant tone: ssHello,
Bob" Hudspeth stopped short, gave a
vacant stare through the doctors gold
bowed eyeglasses and asked with subdued
emphasis: sWho are you, sir ?" The
Speaker colored. showed no inclination to
enter into particulars regarding his iden-
tity, and each passed on.-[N. Y. World.l
One of the saddest stories We have
heard latetey comes from Trenton. Two
years or so ago one of the most genial
newspaper correspondents in the state
had desk in the Senate. He is hand
some talented fellow popular with every
body, had been Superintendent of Schools,
and was once the Republican candidate
for Mayor. He is fiction writer of rec
ognized merit. and enjoys handsome
income of $4,000 or $4,000. He had a
facile pencil, and his caricatures of Mem
bers of the two Houses were as faithful and
funny as some of Nast's portraits. Twenty
Ave years ago he married school mis-
tress scarcely less talented than her husband.
and even yet beautiful woman. They
reared noble family of children. One
of the daughters is now on the eve of
marriage, and .sAson is in the Military
Academy at est Point. Next door to
them i've IAN named Van Camp who
was in the Insurance business, and whom
Secretary Of State Kelsey frequently sent
over the state to examine into the con.
dition of State Banks. Van Camp is a
widower. but not by any means handsome.
He and the newspaper correspondent
were fast friends, and for twenty years
Van Camp was welcome guest at the
newspaper mans table. Two years age
the newspaper man, for some inexYlic-
able reason, sold his property in Trenton
and moved TO another part of the State.
Recently rumors reached his ears affecting
the Integrity of his wife of quaHer of a
century. He paid no attention to them
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